Re: [hobbit] Purple status removal… orcorrect DNS tests

[McDonald, Dan]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0200, bsd wrote:
> Le 22 sept. 08 à 17:48, bsd a écrit :
> 
> > Hello folks,
> >
> >
> > I have started monitoring DNS tests on a server and It has never  
> > worked correctly (always red status):
> >
> > - Ubuntu 8
> > - bind 9.x running in a jail environement.
> >
> >
> > I haven't been able to find the DNS test correctly explained… any  
> > advise will be welcome.

I generally test for soa records on authoritative zones:
0.0.0.0         ns2.example.com   #noconn ssh ntp dig=soa:example.com,soa:example.net,soa:example.org

If those come back with a valid record, then I know that DNS is running.


-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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